the photo of this weeks inspiring prompt comes from Sandra Crook
Sitting on the steps of the old amphitheatre, I hummed the melody of the song that marked the beginning of our lovestory. There was no shadow, I could feel the heat on my skin.
„Thank you guys, good job, it will be a fantastic premiere! “
The director was enthusiastic.
“You were all great, just memorize this rehearsal and replay it at 9:00 p.m. tonight!”
Some of them laughed, I watched the group leaving the wooden stage and tried to find out, which of the three women was the one who just ruined my marriage: Bianca, Emilia or Desdemona.
105 words today are looking forward to your helpful comments!
wortwabe 
What a great story and so well written! I am in awe of your command of the English language. I would have never guessed it was you „second“ language! 😀
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Linda, thank you so much, I always feel like speaking pidgin English 🙂 but FF helps me a lot to improve. And I meet so many interesting people! That´s great!
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I’d be thrilled if I could speak and write German as well as you do English! 🙂
janet
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Oh Janet thank you so much! It´s just because in Germany English is so popular, meanwhile the kids in the first year already start with English lessons. Our son visits a bilingual class at the Gymnasium (High School) and their history-,biology- and geography-lessons are in English. (He is 14) The Germans love English so much that they use it in sometimes really stupid ways, mostly those who don´t speak the language so good 🙂 they love to use English words. Very favored are jobtitles. Everyone is a „manager“ , you won´t find a „Geschäftsführer“ anylonger, there are only super-important CEOs, CFOs, COOs and C-whatever. Advertising slogans often are in English and sometimes they are a catastrophy. A big perfume and cosmetic retailer used to have the slogan „come in and find out“ – for years! Until half of the country laughed about them, then they changed it. Patriots call this phenomenon „Denglish“
We can be very funny when we try to be serious 🙂
Liebe Grüße
Carmen
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Carmen, I’m of German descent and my grandparents all spoke at least some German. We were the only people I knew who pronounced Volkswagen correctly and called German Shepherds Poliezeihunds. 🙂
Much love to you, too. (I don’t know how to do the umlaut, so I’ll go with English.)
janet
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that´s great! My grandma was in NYC 3 years, two of her sisters immigrated end of the 20ies with their husbands and they started a family. So I have, vice versa, also a kind of connection to the US. We are all connected, we are all from one origin.
Liebe Grüße
Carmen
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Dear Carmen,
A lot of bad German attempts here. Draliman’s making me retch. Sorry about that. I’m sure we all mean well.
I enjoyed your foray into Othello in the amphitheater. Sehr gut geschrieben.
Choos,
Doug
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Aloha Doug,
I don´t mind, cause I don´t know how my English sounds for a native speaker 🙂 every attempt is a risk and no risk no fun! Thanks for your comment, I feel I am improving, I learn so much each week. This group is awesome, I adore the internet for this incredible possibilities of communication. Sitting in my little village in Germany (cold, rainy, cloudy day) exchanging messages with a guy in Hawai (probably sunny, warm and blue sky). That makes my day.
Liebe Grüße
Carmen
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Dear Carmen,
I feel revenge on the horizon Sehr gut. I enjoyed this very much .
Shalom,
Rochelle
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dear Rochelle, thank you for your comment. I love this group so much, I am SO happy I found your homepage with that challenge. Es gibt keine Zufälle – nothing happens by accident….thank you for your work and all the time you give to it! I was ill the whole week and now have to get all the undone work done before I can start to read all the other great stories, but tonite and tomorrow I´ll gonna jump in all that Friday Fiction!
Liebe Grüße
Carmen
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Kill ‚em all, I say, just to be on the safe side! 🙂 Nice one.
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Always leave ‚em wondering….
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thank you Dawn 🙂 !!!
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Oh, I thought it would end happily. Lots of romance in the theater, with performers getting caught up in the heat of the moment. Well done!
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Thank you! I am in this group now the third week and each week I was fascinated by all the great stories and often there was such a twist…and I admit, I was eager to try this too 🙂 first attempt! I will go on working on that. Thank you for reading and for your comment!
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Well, I loved the punch line, but I didn’t really get the story!
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English is not my first language – maybe that´s the point..hope I`ll improve 🙂 Thanks for reading and for your comment!
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Another Othello reference? Very well done!
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Thank xou Helena!
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A real life drama inside the stage drama. I like it!
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Hallo! Danke dir – Eifersucht ist immer eine gute story….
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Du hast Recht – a strong emotion makes for a strong story 🙂
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